The People Speak, November 3, 2009
Host: Basima Farhat
Previously Aired On: Tuesday, November 3, 2009!
Anne Keala Kelly speaks about her documentary film Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawaii in which the US Military has turned Hawaii into a testing and training ground for the wars in the Middle East.
Kealas work as a journalist and filmmaker focuses primarily on Hawaiian political and cultural issues, indigenous peoples and the environment. She has filed stories from Hawaii, Kathmandu, and Geneva and her articles and essays have been published in The Nation, Indian Country Today, American Indian Quarterly, the Honolulu Weekly and other journals. She has also produced documentaries and short features for radio, which have aired on the Pacifica Networks Free Speech Radio News and NPRs The Environment Report. Kealas news footage has been featured on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and Democracy Now! She was the co-producer of The Other Hawaii, a 30-minute Inside USA program for Al Jazeera English.
Her first feature length film, Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawaii, won the Best Documentary Film Award at the Hawaii International Film Festival in October 2008.
The People Speak
The People Speak has evolved over the years with many great guests who have been interviewed by some very fine hosts.
We are a 55 minute show airing every other Sunday between 5-6pm Pacific/8-9pm Eastern. The show features a guest interview from any number of realms of interest (entertainment, science, philosophy, healing, spirituality, activism, politics, literature, etc.).
The guests share their stories, lives, strategies, books, philosophy, films, music, or whatever it is they use as a vehicle for making a difference for the better.
The radio show name, The People Speak, is based on the idea of allowing our audience - the People - a chance to interact with the guests during the hour, and we take phone or text questions from them during the interview.
Past guests include such notables as Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the late Howard Zinn, Nobel Laureates Mairead Maguire, Shirin Ebadi, Kathryn Najimy, Oliver Stone, Jesse Ventura, Richard Belzer, Cynthia McKinney, Cindy Sheehan, Scott Horton, Joan Jett, Willie Nelson, George Galloway, Roseanne Barr, Ed Asner, Chevy Chase, as well as various reps from Amnesty International, UN World Food Programme, and many others.
